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Homeopathy with cress seedlings as experimental approach



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All Things Considered? Basic Research on Homeopathy May Shed a
Different Light on the Recycling of Wastewater.
by Andreas Schönborn, EcoEng-online editor, Switzerland
http://www.iees.ch/EcoEng003/EcoEng003_F.html

Physicist Dr. Stephan Baumgartner from the University of Berne

Apparently associated with:

Institute for Complementary Medicine (KIKOM)
http://www.cx.unibe.ch/kikom/en/index.htm


"Baumgartner is now working on establishing a stable, well defined experimental
system which fulfils these criteria. One approach is using cress seedlings
(Lepidum sativum) which are grown on chromatographic paper in plastic
bags in the dark. They can be easily grown in great numbers in order to
achieve statistically significant results. The state of growth can be monitored
rapidly by photocopying the bags and using image processing techniques for
the analysis of various parameters (e.g. growth of root and shoot, curvatures). The seedlings are not destroyed by this monitoring and can be further analyzed,
e.g. on chemical contents....

The cress system allows easy handling and a fast yield of a great number
of parameters which can be subjected to statistical analysis.....

An advantage of using a non-animal test system also is, that positive results
are backing up the hypothesis that the effectivity of homeopathic dilutions
is not limited to humans or other animals. In fact experimental evidence from
other sources as well as Baumgartner's own work suggest a sensitivity of
plants and even microbes to homeopathic dilutions (Baumgartner et al. 2000)...

First results have shown that cress seedlings react to homeopathic potencies of a plant growth promotor (auxin) and a plant growth inhibitor ( abscisic acid)
as expected: potentised auxin slows down, whereas potentised abscisic acid
enhances the growth of the seedlings. (Baumgartner, 1998, personal
communication). Interestingly, plants that have been exposed to poisonous
substances generally seem to show stronger reactions (up to 24% growth
increase) than healthy plants (± 5% growth modulation) (Baumgartner et
al. 2000).

Baumgartner, S.M., Shah, D., Heusser, P., Thurneysen, A., 2000,
Homeopathic dilutions: Is there a potential for application in organic
plant production?, in "IFOAM 2000  The World Grows Organic"
97-100.

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All Things Considered? Basic Research on Homeopathy May Shed a
Different Light on the Recycling of Wastewater.
by Andreas Schönborn, EcoEng-online editor, Switzerland
http://www.iees.ch/EcoEng003/EcoEng003_F.html

Ecological Engineering is advocating an enhanced reuse and recycling of
substances that have been in close contact with, or basically are human
excreta. If we accept the idea that there may be a way of information
transfer yet undiscovered, we must avoid too close circles. There may
be unforeseen effects caused by an "accumulation" of information transferring
agents.

[Note: This article is part of a large collection on urine source
separation and re-use in agriculture as a fertilizer]

2.

Fundamental Research in Ultra High Dilution and Homoeopathy
Kluwer Academic Publishers

edited by
Jürgen Schulte
Dept. of Applied Physics, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Peter Christian Endler
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Homoeopathy, Graz, Austria

http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-5051-0
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-5051-0?a=1

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